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PAINT GAN PRESS. No. 366,6) Patented July 12, 1887..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WILLIAM D. METER., OE BROOKLYN, AssreNoE rro VALENTINE a OOMPANY,

' OE NEw YOEK, N. Y.

PAINT-CAN PRESS.

SECIFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,619, dated July 12,1887.

Applica'ion filed June l, 1887.

Serial No. 210,312.

(No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that l', WILLIAM D. CARTER, of Brooklyn, in the county of' Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Paint-Can Presses, of which I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, Yforming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in paint-can presses; and the invention consists in a paintran press constructed, combined, and arranged in the manner hereinafter shown, described, and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure I is a vfront elevation of the press in posi-A tion for use. Fig. 2 is a vertical section in the plane indicated by the line av rv, l. Fig. 3 is acrosssection in the plane y y, Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of certain parts.

Similar letters of reference indicatelike parts in the several views.

The particular class of presses to which this invention relates is such as are employed to force paint from a can through the spigot or gate thereof. Generally speaking, presses for this purpose are old and well known; but it is believedV that my press possesses novel and valuable features, as will be seen from the accompanying drawings.

A represents the back or foundation plate of my press. At Or near one end of this plate is fixed, in any desired manner, a bracket, D. This bracket is east with a hollow interior head, a, open at each end, as at I), and with slots c in the sides thereof. The bracket has also fixed to it a projecting fuleruni, d. Vithin the hollow head a, and fitted to snugly slide therein, is ablock, C. This block is slotted as at c. Pivoted to this block at one end is a pawhf, which is provided with thumlrlever, y, and with a projection, 7L,- also in the block C is inserted a spiral spring, 7.',which projects somewhat and bears against the projection hI of' the pawlf. Passing through the head of the bracket, B,and sliding through the same, is a ratchet-bar, D. This bar terminates at one end in a grooved collar, E, having two studs, Z and m, and a groove7 o1, formed thereon and therein.

In the base-plate A are formed slots F, and removably itted in either of said slots,as may be desired, is a shelf, G. This shelfis of such size and proportions as will enable it to support a paint-can when placed thereon,and it is 5 5 desired. On the ratchet-bar D is placed a disk, 6o

II, centrally perforated to receive the upper part of the collar E, but not to permit the lower flange, 1', of the collar to pass through said perforation. Notches s and s are made in the sides ofthe perforation, of such size as will permit the studs Zand m to pass through the same.

Passing through the slots c in the sides of the hollow head a is a lever, K. This lever also passes through the slot c in the block C, and 7o one end ofthe lever is pivoted to the fulcrum d.

Now, when my press is constructed substantially as described, it is operated in this manner: Dy means of screws passing through the base-plate A, or otherwise, it is fixed verti 75 cally to the wall or elsewhere. The shelf G is fixed in either one of the slots F of the baseplate A, the can of' paint is placed on the shelf, and the disk II on the ratchet-bar D allowed to descend on the surface of' the paint or on a dia- 8o phragm placed in the can. The gate or spigot near the bottom of the can is then opened and the lever I( moved alternately up and down, and by that operation the pawlf engages in the teeth s of the ratchet-bar D, and so forces the S5 bar and its disk II downward, producing thereby su ffieient pressure on the paint in the can to cause it to pass out of the spigot or gate. To remove the disk II from the paint or can, sl ight pressure on the thumb-leverg causes 9o the pawlf to disengage from the teeth s in the bar D, so that that bar may freely loe lnoved up, passing through the hollow head a for that purpose. \Vhen pressure is removed from the thumb-lever g, then the spiral spring k exerts its force to again push the pawlfinto engagement with the teeth s of the bar D. The purpose ofthe collar E and its studsl and m and groove a is this: Paintcans are sometimes provided with a diaphragn'i fitted within the :Ocv

cans and sold with them. These diaphragms have sockets in them, and it is to fit these sockets I provide the collar E on the bar D; and as well to adapt the press to cans which Patent, is-

A paint can press having the following elements, in combination: abase-plate, A, provided with slots F and a fulorum, d, a bracket, B, having a hollow head provided with open ends b and slots 0, a sliding block, C, iitted in the hollow head a, alever, K, passing through said block and pivoted to the fulerum d, a pawl, f, pivoted to the 'block C and provided with a thumb-lever, g, projection h, and spiral spring 7c, a ratchetbar,D, a grooved and stndded collar, E, fixed to said ratchet-bar, ashelf, G, With catch p, and a disk, H, perforated to t said collar E of the bar D, all constructed and combined as and for the purpose described.

WVM. D. CARTER.

In presence of A. S. HOMER, Jr.,

B. L. CHANDLER. 

